Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe: The Management of Precariousness at the End of the Twentiety Century

Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction ANGELA PROCOLI......Page 10
PART I: Identity and the Experience of Work......Page 22
1. The Hazards of Overemployment: What Do Chief Executives and Housewives Have in Common? SANDRA WALLMAN......Page 24
2. Secret Enterprise: Market Activities among London Sex Workers SOPHIE DAY......Page 40
3. The Political Economy of Affects: Community, Friendship, and Family in the Organization of a Spanish Economic Region SUSANA NAROTZKY......Page 66
Part II: Liminality and the Narrative of Survival......Page 90
4. Manufacturing the New Man: Professional Training in France—Life Stories and the Reshaping of Identities ANGELA PROCOLI......Page 92
5. Passages to No-Man’s-Land: Connecting Work, Community, and Masculinity in the South Wales Coalfield RICHARD-MICHAEL DIEDRICH......Page 110
6. Unemployed and Hard Workers: Entrepreneurial Moralities between “Shadow” and “Sunlight” in Naples ITALO PARDO......Page 130
PART III: Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past?......Page 156
7. Productivity and the Person: From Socialist Competition to Capitalist Mission in Eastern Europe BIRGIT MÜLLER......Page 158
8. Redefining Work in a Local Community in Poland: “Transformation” and Class, Culture, and Work MICHAL BUCHOWSKI......Page 182
9. Working in the West: Managing Eastern Histories at the German Labor Market—The Case of Russian German Immigrants REGINA RÖMHILD......Page 206
Contributors......Page 226
G......Page 230
P......Page 231
Z......Page 232